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Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) wants Ukraine to join international anti-Russian sanctions which, it said, must be expanded.

 “In order to increase pressure on Russia, the National Security and Defense Council has passed a resolution requiring that the sanctions introduced against Russia by the European Union, Switzerland, the United States and the G7, become mandatory for application in Ukraine and be expanded,” the NSDC’s press service reported after the Council’s meeting on Jan. 25.

“The NSDC has instructed the Cabinet to start a procedure of filing lawsuits with the Hague Tribunal regarding the crimes against humanity, committed by the terrorists against Ukrainian citizens in 2014-15, and concerning recognition of the ‘DPR’ and ‘LPR’ as terrorist organizations,” the NSDC said on its official website.

The Ukrainian Cabinet in September 2014 submitted proposals to the NSDC, urging application of personal economic and other sanctions against 209 legal entities and over 1,000 individuals, in a follow-up to the Law on Sanctions, passed by the Ukrainian parliament on Aug. 12 on the Cabinet’s initiative, earlier reports said. The eight-point document is to be finally enforced in a presidential decree.

The cabinet wants the NSDC to impose an entry ban on individuals who supported aggression against Ukraine, prohibit the Russian state resident companies and companies with a Russian stake that supported aggression against Ukraine from exporting capital.

The Ukrainian government wants a ban to be imposed on the state purchases of goods, work and services from Russian state resident companies and companies with a Russian stake, and other entities selling goods, work and services of Russian origin, except in instances, confirmed by the Economic Development Ministry, when such purchases cannot be replaced.

The government proposed banning Russian residents and parties that are directly or indirectly controlled by Russia residents, or act in their interests, from taking part in privatization or in concluding new state property, or rent agreements, as exercising additional environmental, sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary control over Russian-made foods, light-industry items, cosmetics and household chemicals.

The government also urged the NSDC to ban the transfer of know-how and intellectual property rights to Russian residents and parties that are directly or indirectly controlled by Russian residents, or act in their interests.